The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library plans to form a Memoir Writing Group. Share your personal stories in a supportive, creative environment. If you are interested, please contact us at: info@piermontlibrary.org for more information.

Writing experience is not required. Everyone has a story to tell. Discover yours.

Our cocktail party was held at The View Sept. 18, 2014. This event served the dual purpose of honoring Ann Hickey for her lifetime of service to Piermont, including ten years (and counting!) as a Library Trustee and raising funds for an organization dear to her heart, The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library.

We thank our friends at The View for helping us put together such a lovely evening. We also thank Ned Kelly & Co. for donating a beautiful floral arrangement.

The Library's art teacher, Alexis Starke, is one of 60 teachers and librarians across 27 states who have been awarded an Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant to help bring their inventive programs to students. To receive this award, the educators applied for funding to implement specific programs that foster creative expression, working together and interaction with a diverse community.

Alexis Starke will use her grant to teach a special series of art classes for kids in grades 4 - 8 this fall at the Library, Artists-in-Residence at the Piermont Library and Piermont Marsh. Students will become Artists-in-Residence, exploring the Piermont Marsh, Sparkill Creek, and Hudson River, taking photographs and sketching along the way. They will then use the photographs and sketches as references for a number of printmaking projects using monotype, blockprinting, and photo-transfer. Approximately 11,000 years old, the 1000-acre Piermont Marsh is an ecologically unique component of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve. The grant from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation will provide students with cameras, monotype gel printing plates, block printing carving tools, brayers and printing inks. The class will culminate with an exhibit of the students' work in the Library Gallery.

Cocktail Party Fundraiser to be held at The View on the Hudson: Come Celebrate with Ann Hickey!

The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library is pleased to celebrate with Ann Hickey in honor of her lifetime of service to Piermont including 10 years as a library trustee. Join us in thanking our beloved Ann with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and music to benefit a worthy organization dear to her heart, your local library.

Tickets: $70 per person
If you purchase tickets, please send us the names of all attendees to be put on the guest list.
Proceeds benefit The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library.

Tributes: You can purchase screen space to have a personalized message to Ann displayed at the party as part of a slideshow of photos and greetings. If you purchase a tribute, please send us the text as you would like it to appear.
$25 for a Silver Tribute
$50 for a *Gold Tribute
(*Purchase of a Gold Tribute includes a keepsake DVD of the slideshow.)

Tickets and tributes can be purchased by mailing a check to the library at: 25 Flywheel Park West, Piermont, NY 10968. Make checks payable to Piermont Public Library.